A Harvard University history professor who taught at the Ivy League school for about four decades said he is leaving after becoming disillusioned by what he described as Harvard's academic direction, COVID-19 policies, and approach to admissions and campus culture. James Hankins, a specialist in Renaissance history, announced his plans in an opinion essay published this week in Compact magazine. He wrote that he delivered his final Harvard lecture about two weeks earlier and is retiring as he finishes a four-year retirement agreement he said he signed in the fall of 2021. In the essay, Hankins said his decision grew...